Dear Mr. & Mrs. Seller, I am sorry your marriage didn't make it. Really, it makes me quite sad. I felt your loss when I walked through your beautiful house last night, in spite of gracious hostessing by your Realtor. Her broker open was well attended. The shrimp were delicious, by the way.
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09/28/2006
Ruth Spencer, a consumer reporter for Detroit's local NBC affiliate put out an awful consumer tip in yesterday's Detroit Free Press. The name of her featured segment is "Ruth to the Rescue." Following is her snippet, and my reply, which I will be sending as a letter to the editor.RUTH TO THE RE
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09/26/2006
Certainly others of you out there in the blogosphere will have the answers to my questions.Yesterday I was Googleing something, and I landed on Googlebase. It looks like ActiveRain has managed to send our AR blogs there. Pretty cool, huh?! Thanks, Matt, Caleb and Ben. This certainly is anothe
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09/24/2006
Earlier this year, I organized a twilight open house for our firm’s listings in Beverly Hills, Michigan. The office had 12 listings there at the time. My hope was twofold: to bring in potential buyers, and to attract real estate agents to preview our properties. We did a couple of things to ta
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09/22/2006
As I read the Sunday paper this morning my stomach started to knot up. Felt a little bit like nausea coming on. I have homes to sell in Michigan (for the clients we represent). If you are selling a home in Michigan, you know what I am talking about. I can no longer count the layoff announcem
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09/17/2006
There has been a fair amount of dialogue in the last few days about the importance of growing ActiveRain with ACTIVE participants. It gets harder all the time to keep up with the new voices. This morning I would like to point out a couple of newer voices who have caught my eye. Some of them ha
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09/16/2006
We’ve been reluctant to declare a victor in The Race for Third, but it appears that Sara Lipnitz’ 2000 point lead over Josh Plummer may be insurmountable. Has Plummer given up? Is his profession his Achilles’ heel? ActiveRain, does seem to be dominated by verbose Realtors. Are the lenders nat
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09/14/2006
Last night, in the comments of a blog, Kristal Kraft was talking about how most of our posts are directed toward our own industry. With few exceptions, most of the blogs here are written by real estate professionals FOR real estate professionals. The blogs that are written for consumers are in
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09/13/2006
I've spent the last hour or so deleting about 18 months worth of posts from our Oakland County real estate blog. Its kind of scary to push delete and know my work could be gone for good. Google, msn and yahoo had found me and visited often. The occasional client stopped by. New customers som
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09/12/2006
I promised a follow up to my article about the $100 gas card giveaway. I dragged Lipnitz away from her desk early this morning, insisting that we show up to the broker open before 11:00 to ensure that I leave with a gas card in hand. She said I was overestimating the turnout. Well, when we tu
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09/12/2006
